The trial at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has been welcomed by doctors and surgeons and has the potential to transform patient care.
A new NHS pilot using artificial intelligence and robotic technology to help doctors reach hard-to-detect cancers earlier, with fewer invasive tests, has been greeted warmly by doctors.
The new approach, piloted at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and funded through the NHS Cancer Programme – Innovation Open Call (SBRI Healthcare), uses AI software to analyse lung scans and flag small lumps that are most likely to be cancerous, and a robotic camera is then used to guide biopsy tools through the airways with far greater precision than standard techniques.
The robot can reach nodules as small as six millimetres hidden in the lung, which are often…